Dr Olfa Ben Hadj Khalifa Koobar is a French Consultant Neonatologist at CMC Hospital Dubai and head of the NICU.
She is passionate about extreme premature infants and very low birth weight newborns management, breastfeeding support and developmental care implementation. Her approach is to deliver a family centered care.
Education
2012-2015: Interuniversity Diploma of Specialization in Neonatology (DESC=Diplôme d’Etudes Spécialisées Complémentaires de Néonatologie) issued by Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France
Certified with the Basic life support (BLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP).
Job experience
She worked in France then in the middle east for the last few years. She gained expertise in handling extreme premature babies from 23 weeks of gestational age.